Photos: Earth Day work at a farm

Updated 3:50 pm, Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Brian Taylor, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, carries buckets of rocks as he helps clear the land in preparation for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Michael Murphy, student at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, center, carries a load of rocks as he helps clear the land in preparation for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Brita Nelson, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, catches her breath as she carries a load of rocks to prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Kristin Haacker, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, picks field rocks as she helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Michael Murphy, student at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, unearths a big rock as helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Staff member at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering picks field rocks as she helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Brandon Murphy, farm staff at the Patroon Land Farm, loads buckets of field rocks into a pickup truck on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Ani Levine, student at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, carries rocks as she helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Seiichiro Higashiya, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, left, carries buckets of rocks as he helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Seiichiro Higashiya, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, center, picks field rocks as he helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Jen Colavito, staff at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, center, carries rocks as she helps prepare the land for farming on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

Ani Levine, student at SUNYas College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, right, throws another rock on the pile of picked field rocks on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, at the Patroon Land Farm in the Town of Knox, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)